Though he heap up silver as the dust
Which, as it denotes the great abundance of it collected
together, so it expresses the bias and disposition of such a
man's mind, that he cannot be content without amassing great
quantities of it, and also his diligence and success therein, see
( 1 Kings
10:27 ) ( Psalms 39:6 ) (
Habakkuk
2:6 ) ;
and prepare raiment as the clay;
not merely, for use, but pomp and show, to fill his wardrobes
with; and formerly, raiment was part of the treasure of great
men: the phrase signifies that he might have such a variety of
raiment, and such large quantities of it, that he would value it
no more than so much clay; or else that his riches, consist of
what it would, would be both polluting and troublesome to him;
the Septuagint version reads "gold" instead of "raiment", as in (
Zechariah
9:3 ) , where like expressions are used of Tyre.
